Greenwood High International School

In Brief

Greenwood High is the most accessible route into international curriculum schooling in Bangalore - fees sit well below the full IB schools and the dual-track model means you can start ICSE and switch to IGCSE without changing school. If your child is exam-focused and value matters, it's a serious option.

Greenwood High occupies a different position from the pure IB schools: it runs parallel ICSE and international tracks on the same campus, which means a genuinely large student body (2,000+), a wide co-curricular programme, and fees that are roughly half what CIS or Stonehill charges. The school has produced India toppers in IGCSE and ICSE, and IB Diploma results reportedly track above the global average. For families who are uncertain whether they will stay long-term or prefer the option of re-entering the Indian system, the dual curriculum model is a genuine advantage.

The Sarjapur Road campus serves Koramangala, HSR Layout, Electronic City, and the Whitefield corridor reasonably well. Boarding is available from Grade 5 for families on the IGCSE-IB international track, which suits families whose corporate relocations are uncertain. Co-curricular activity is a genuine strength; the school has staged full-scale professional-standard theatrical productions including 'Annie', with input from Globe Education (Shakespeare's Globe's education arm), which is unusual for an Indian school at this price point.

The trade-off for the larger scale and lower fees is that Greenwood High is not a pure international school. The campus feels Indian, the majority of students are locally-rooted families rather than relocating international families, and the international community is smaller than at CIS, TISB, or Stonehill. For a family fresh from an international school abroad who wants their children immersed in a truly global peer group, the school may feel different from what they expect.